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<h1>Introduction</h1>
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HomeBank was originally designed (in early 1998) to replace a manual process of personal accounts, with a pen, a book and a calculator.<BR>
Since then he has constantly evolved and for example now includes the import of OFX / QFX files since v3.2, and QIF files from v4.0.
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<h2>:: How HomeBank can help me doing my accounts ?</h2>

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The first reason is that I want HomeBank to be simple and intuitive:<br>
=> You do not need to be an expert accountant to know how to use it !
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Also here is some of his strengths:
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	<li>Easy import of OFX, QFX, QIF files with duplicate detection</li>
	<LI>Easy management of transactions: bookmark, inheritance, filter, multiple edition, scheduling, reminder</li>
	<li>Easy management of payees and categories: automatic assignment, direct add from the register, autocompletion</li>	
	<li>Unique fields for transactions: visual paymode/status, paymode info, tag</li>
	<li>Import and export of many parts of the datas in a specific CSV file format</li>		
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<h2>:: How HomeBank can analyze the use of my money ?</h2>
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HomeBank can anticipate future costs and also helps to know where your money comes from, but also more specifically where it goes !
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	<LI>Anticipate future costs: scheduled transaction inserted before term, future balance</li>
	<LI>Dynamic, easy and powerful reports tools with graphical charts</li>
	<li>Monitoring the balance in time and alert on bank overdrafts</li>
	<li>Simple budget and car cost analysis</li>
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<h2>:: Ask for feature and suggest your ideas</h2>

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Finally, HomeBank is not only open source, it will also be open
to suggestions and feature requests from users.<br>
That's the reason why HomeBank is what it is today.
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So... Do not hesitate to ask and suggest !
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